West Germany: Der Liszt Tvist

In Munich, teen-agers sport
peppermint-striped skirts whose hems bear the legend "Achtung, es wird
getwistet" (Watch out, we're doing the twist) and wiggle to the
recorded groanings of one Oliver Twist and his group, Die Happy
Twisters. In West Berlin's jumping Eden

Saloon, lithe and limber Jamaican and Ghanaian girls nightly instruct
votaries in a ritualistic, undulating "voodoo twist." Months after it
began spraining sacroiliacs in the U.S., Britain and France, the twist
has seized Germany.

No dance band can squeeze in more than one quick waltz or fox trot
before the crowd begins chanting "Tvist! Tvist!" The bands quickly
oblige....